Re: virt-manager wants password for a user's account

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On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 3/21/25 2:14 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/21/25 14:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > On 3/21/25 12:24 PM, Alex Gurenko via users wrote:
> > > > Do you need it to ask for a root password? Maybe just add your user 
> > > > to the libvirt group with usermod -a -G libvirt <username> ?
> > > 
> > > If you do that, it won't ask for any password.  Otherwise, it is 
> > > trying to find an admin user.  But there's no way to get it to ask for 
> > > the root password.
> > > 
> > 
> > My office machine does.
> 
> Maybe if there's no admin user.  By default, root doesn't even have a 
> password.

What? Every Linux (and UNIX) system I've ever used has had a root
password, including Fedora. In fact, Anaconda asks you to set one up at
installation. Or did you mean something else?

poc
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